News, resources, and community for engineers working with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Honeycomb, Splunk, BindPlane, and the broader observability ecosystem.
What's happening across the observability ecosystem
With traces, metrics, and logs all reaching GA, the OTEL ecosystem is maturing fast. Here's what operators should update first.
The new BubbleUp integration brings automated hypothesis generation to Honeycomb's already-powerful exploration interface.
A practical breakdown of the tradeoffs between rolling your own pipeline configuration and adopting a managed control plane.
Tools, platforms, and standards shaping the space
How do you handle high-cardinality labels in Prometheus without breaking the bank?
OTel Collector vs Fluent Bit for log forwarding — sharing our migration notes
Anyone using Grafana Alloy in production? Looking for real-world feedback
OpenTelemetry — Getting Started Guide
Instrument your first service in under 30 minutes
Semantic Conventions Cheat Sheet
All the standard attribute names, organized by signal type
SLO Playbook for Platform Teams
How to define, measure, and enforce service-level objectives
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